Contributors
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Eli Bromberg is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is concentrating in American Studies. His research interests include Jewish American literature, gender and sexuality studies, ethnic American literature, and literary, filmic, and television narratives depicting Jewish partnering. He is particularly interested in the relationship between incest, close endogamy, exogamy, and interracial exogamy anxieties. He is currently completing his dissertation, Sex and Difference in the Jewish American Family: Incest Narratives in 1990s Literary and Pop Culture, which examines the media coverage and artistic output of Woody Allen, Henry Roth, and Roseanne Barr emerging from their respective incest denials, confessions, and allegations. The project advances understanding of contemporary racial politics by delineating how the intersections of the historical vulnerabilities of Jewishness, and privileges of whiteness, affect contemporary policing of family and sexuality with regard to class and race.
Jonathan Cohen teaches at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he presently serves as director. He is also a senior faculty member at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership. His research interests include the interface between Jewish thought and Jewish education and the hermeneutic approaches of modern Jewish thinkers—especially with regard to their orientation to the Bible. He is presently editing a collection called Orality and Textuality in Jewish Tradition and Jewish Education and is the author of Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttmann and Strauss on the History of Jewish Philosophy (2007). Recently he has contributed an essay on Buber and Rosenzweig’s biblical hermeneutics to the collection called Jewish Concepts of Scripture (edited by Ben Zommer) and an essay on the hermeneutics of Rosenzweig and Leo Strauss to the Journal of Religion.
Carol Gayle is Associate Professor of History at Lake Forest College. She did her graduate work in History at Columbia University where she earned the certificate in Russian and Soviet Studies. Although primarily a specialist in Russian and Soviet intellectual and social history, she has also published in American History. Her recent publications include “James Bogardus: Inventor of Cast-iron Architecture,” in The Great Builders, edited by Kenneth Powell (2011), and “Translating the Column into Iron: Bogardus and the Emergence of Cast-Iron [End Page 131] Architecture in America,” in La Colonne: Nouvelle histoire de la construction, edited by Roberto Gargiani (2008). She coauthored Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus (1998), selected as a New York Times notable book. She has also published several articles in The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Russian History.
Anat Koplowitz-Breier is Lecturer at the Comparative Literature Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. She wrote her dissertation on A Woman’s Charm in Le Morte Darthur—Two Models of Women in the Work of Sir Thomas Malory. Since then she has published several articles on medieval literature and modern poetry. Her recent research focuses on modern poetry (in particularly German, English, and Hebrew), and the place of the Bible in it. She also publishes on detective fiction. Her recent articles include “A Blessed Journey: The Imprint of Yehuda Halevi’s Poetry on Ludwig Strauss’s Land Israel Poems” in Nahahraim (2014) and “Biblical/Modern Intergenerational Conflict: Four Modern German Poets on ‘Abishag the Shunammite’” in Neohelicon (2015).
William Moskoffis Hollender Professor Emeritus of Economics at Lake Forest College. He holds a PhD in Economics and the Certificate in Russian Area Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his many works are The Bread of Affliction (1990) and Ko-ops (1991). He coauthored “An Immigrant Bank in Philadelphia Serving Russian Jews: The Blitstein Bank (1891–1930)” in Pennsylvania History (2014) and is the author of many articles on Russian and Jewish postal history. He is the former editor of Comparative Economic Studies and Rossica: The Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately.
Rebekah Slodounik, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at The College of William and Mary, earned her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Virginia in 2016. Her research focuses on the transmission of Holocaust memory through narrative in German Jewish and American Jewish post-Holocaust literature. In addition to Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies, her research...
